'Crushing' lip-out bars Mickelson from golf's Club 59: Phil Mickelson held his head in horror on... #sports #golf

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Phil Mickelson held his head in horror on the ninth green, his 18th of the day. His 26-foot putt birdie putt for 59 curled around the right edge of the hole and stayed out. "It's crushing," Mickelson said, "because you don't get that chance very often." David Duval, who once shot golf's magical number of 59, summed it up best, tweeting "he just got robbed." No one would disagree. In addition to "crushing," Mickelson used the adjectives "mortified" and "heartbreaking" to describe his round of 60. And yet he was also "ecstatic." Has anyone shooting 60 ever run such a gamut of emotions? Mickelson was attempting to become the sixth golfer to shoot 59 in a PGA Tour event. He settled for matching the TPC Scottsdale tournament record, one he already shared, with an 11-under-par 60 Thursday to take a four-stroke lead over five other golfers at the Waste Manage...